So say all the ZEeepers on FR! "How dare you insult saint Volodymyr of Kryvyi Rih!"
Saint Volodymyr and his gals, doing their tribute to XiJinBiden's regime in the District of Corruption.
Posted on 04/13/2023 5:08:09 PM PDT by delta7
Amid rampant corruption in Kiev and as US troops gather at the Ukrainian border, does the Biden administration have an endgame to the conflict?
The Ukraine government, headed by Volodymyr Zelensky, has been using American taxpayers’ funds to pay dearly for the vitally needed diesel fuel that is keeping the Ukrainian army on the move in its war with Russia. It is unknown how much the Zelensky government is paying per gallon for the fuel, but the Pentagon was paying as much as $400 per gallon to transport gasoline from a port in Pakistan, via truck or parachute, into Afghanistan during the decades-long American war there.
What also is unknown is that Zelensky has been buying the fuel from Russia, the country with which it, and Washington, are at war, and the Ukrainian president and many in his entourage have been skimming untold millions from the American dollars earmarked for diesel fuel payments. One estimate by analysts from the Central Intelligence Agency put the embezzled funds at $400 million last year, at least; another expert compared the level of corruption in Kiev as approaching that of the Afghan war, “although there will be no professional audit reports emerging from the Ukraine.”
“Zelensky’s been buying discount diesel from the Russians,” one knowledgeable American intelligence official told me. “And who’s paying for the gas and oil? We are. Putin and his oligarchs are making millions” on it.
Many government ministries in Kiev have been literally “competing,” I was told, to set up front companies for export contracts for weapons and ammunition with private arms dealers around the world, all of which provide kickbacks. Many of those companies are in Poland and Czechia, but others are thought to exist in the Persian Gulf and Israel. “I wouldn’t be surprised to learn that there are others in places like the Cayman Islands and Panama, and there are lots of Americans involved,” an American expert on international trade told me.
The issue of corruption was directly raised with Zelensky in a meeting last January in Kiev with CIA Director William Burns. His message to the Ukrainian president, I was told by an intelligence official with direct knowledge of the meeting, was out of a 1950s mob movie. The senior generals and government officials in Kiev were angry at what they saw as Zelensky’s greed, so Burns told the Ukrainian president, because “he was taking a larger share of the skim money than was going to the generals.”
Burns also presented Zelensky with a list of thirty-five generals and senior officials whose corruption was known to the CIA and others in the American government. Zelensky responded to the American pressure ten days later by publicly dismissing ten of the most ostentatious officials on the list and doing little else. “The ten he got rid of were brazenly bragging about the money they had—driving around Kiev in their new Mercedes,” the intelligence official told me.
Sorry folks, I will say it again, Vlad holds all the cards, you have been deceived by slow Joe and western MSM again…..the Ukies decades old ingrained corruption is legendary….not to mention their Pet Nazi problem…..we are backing the dark horse, as we are now seeing…..and will pay a price.
Not surprising at all with this commie loving nihilistic woke anti-American "administration" running this country.
The problem is, a quickly growing number of people in this country could care less.
Can’t say if all this is true, but it seems there are things badly wrong in Ukraine. The country has vast mineral and agricultural resources and a large industrial base. Yet they are begging for help. They should have been able to defend themselves.
When they add one more comma to their net worth?
Excerpt from the piece says a lot:
“I wouldn’t be surprised to learn that there are others in places like the Cayman Islands and Panama, and there are lots of Americans involved,” an American expert on international trade told me“
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Of course there are “lots of Americans involved.” Look at who is handling the largesse.
Saint Volodymyr and his gals, doing their tribute to XiJinBiden's regime in the District of Corruption.
Is that what you thought of the Russian army 2 years ago, that they were no match for Ukraine?
Is that what you thought of the Russian army 2 years ago, that they were no match for Ukraine?
What’s that got to do with what I posted?
Yes, of course, you think they could have handled Russia by themselves.
Which, by the way, never happens anyway, countries always seek outside resources.
“”Can’t say if all this is true, but it seems there are things badly wrong in Ukraine. The country has vast mineral and agricultural resources and a large industrial base. Yet they are begging for help. They should have been able to defend themselves.””
Yes, of course, you think they could have handled Russia by themselves.
Which, by the way, never happens anyway, countries always seek outside resources.
Given what we now know about Russia’s performance, yes. They should have been better prepared. They knew Russia was an aggressor that coveted their lands and did little to arm themselves. They let Russia steal Crimea without a fight and only now are they talking about taking it back.
You need to look into it more, they have been preparing for years and we would not be in month 14 if they hadn’t prepared, and done so well.
In 2014 Ukraine was a different place with a corrupt government and at the time they were even more corrupt than Russia, and easy pickings.
How many of us said this and were told we were pushing Russian propaganda and were Putin stooges?
In 2014 Ukraine was a different place with a corrupt government and at the time they were even more corrupt than Russia, and easy pickings.
The new government that took over in 2014 didn’t do much more. They didn’t do anything to get Crimea back. Now they’re talking big because we’re backing them.
Taking Crimea back from the world’s second most powerful military was not even seen as a remote possibility until recently.
Judging by your posts so far I can’t even see why you are on a war thread.
Taking Crimea back from the world’s second most powerful military was not even seen as a remote possibility until recently.
Judging by your posts so far I can’t even see why you are on a war thread.
Exactly, because they think we are going to use our military to help them get Crimea back. I’m on this thread because I don’t think we should be involved in this mess except to sponsor peace negotiations. I think we’re being ripped off and taken advantage of.
Thats nice.
BTTT
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